Part of Xiuxi, a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) scroll painting on the literati's annual ... drama and historical allusions with landscape design, anchoring itself in Chinese classical gardens while ...

Dong Qichang in the Ming dynasty redefined landscape painting through his expressive brushwork and poetic compositions. His work combined scholarly ideals with artistic innovation, leaving a ...

Etiquette Pavilion is a place that holds the secrets of "rituals and civility". "Rituals are all about showing respect," as Confucius once said. His ideal of "universal benevolence" aimed to promote ...

Visiting for the first time, he says, “There was no traffic on the road, a continuous empty landscape ... built in the Ming dynasty as a place for ancestor worship. After transporting the ...

The feudal lord who owned the tomb was called Zhu Xuanqi. He was the 11th-generation lord of the Shu Kingdom during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in what is now Sichuan Province. The noble also had ...

Ancient silk paintings dating to China’s Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of the world ...

Chinese ink painting, a centuries-old art using ink ... This endeavor draws inspiration from the innovative spirit of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) painter Xu Wei, who sought to "break all forms ...

A Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) carved cinnabar lidded box sold for $81,250, an oil on canvas equestrian painting by John Frederick Herring (British, 1795-1865) realized $62,000, and golf legend ...

It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs inscribed in 2000 and 2003 ... and the cultural heritage sites and their historic landscape and ...

Ming dynasty officials had their meager wages supplemented with gifts of silver, while Qing elites hid their wealth in land deals. To enable comparison over two millennia, we invented a "rice ...

The court also heard that the three men snatched Ming dynasty antiques worth more than 3.5 million US dollars (£2.78 million) from a Swiss museum shortly before the murder plot. Jurors heard ...